FORT WORTH, Texas — FORT WORTH, Texas — While graphite shafts by United Sports Technologies® (UST) were heating up the Gila River Classic on the Nationwide Tour, UST’s high-performance Harmon Tour Design (HTD®) shafts delivered an exciting victory on the Champions Tour. Playing a Titleist driver upgraded with an Harmon Tour Design graphite shaft, this year’s champion shot a bogey-free back nine to score a final-round 7-under 65 and win the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn.
Now a staple on all pro tours, the HTD is offered in most popular original equipment manufacturer (OEM) products as stock or custom upgrade options.
"Many of UST’s high-performance shafts are extremely well-suited for senior golfers, so it’s very rewarding to earn such a high-profile win on the Champions Tour," says Shawn Mullin, PGA Tour representative for UST. "The professionals on the Champions Tour often have 20-plus years of pro golf experience, so their preference of UST’s advanced graphite shafts is high praise. The HTD line is a great example of our engineers’ dedication to superior performance."
"It’s is no surprise to see the HTD win on the Champions Tour. When fitting golfers at demo days, the HTD fits a lot of different type of swings," added Jamie Pipes, product testing and field research manger for UST. "Even at 65 grams, senior players like the draw-bias ball flight produced by the CB-65 model because they do not have to work as hard to turnover the clubhead."
The high-performance HTD was designed with feedback from world-renown golf instructor Butch Harmon and his brothers — Craig, Billy and Dick — and features an ‘active’ tip section that performs significantly different from the tip section found in most shafts. Mullin explains that the HTD’s tip section is torsionally stable to control the clubhead and offers a higher launch angle for a high, penetrating ball flight down range. The active tip section is the result of extra carbon fiber material used to distribute additional weight in the butt section and to move the shaft’s balance point towards the butt end, thus providing more stability and control in a player’s hands. HTD offers players the ability to swing confidently, increase ball speed and add more distance.
One of the world’s largest and most successful graphite golf shaft manufacturers, UST is well-known for developing innovative golf shafts that have won on every professional tour in the world. In addition to its own award-winning shaft designs, UST’s engineers regularly provide technical expertise on new product development, component compatibility and graphic customization for numerous club manufacturers.
For more information on UST or UST products, contact UST Sales and Public Relations Manager Randy Stuart at 281.250.8465 or visit http://www.ustgolfshaft.com.
United Sports Technologies makes graphite golf shafts for golf consumers and many original equipment manufacturers, such as Nike, Tommy Armour, Sonartec, Wilson Sporting Goods, Hogan, Spalding, and many others. UST also produces and distributes such world-renown graphite shaft brands as Proforce, ACCRA, PURE Gold, IROD and Harmon Tour Design which are played in more than 100 tour events on the PGA, SPGA, Nationwide and European tours. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, UST operates four manufacturing facilities throughout the world and produces more than four million graphite shafts a year for original equipment manufacturers and custom clubmakers. For more information about UST, please visit our website at www.ustgolfshaft.com.
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